Summary Report

The 8th International Conference on Business Information Systems
Poznan Poland 20-22 April 2005

On April 20-22 The Poznan University of Economics hosted the 8th International Conference on Business Information Systems 2005. The conference aimed at discussion of the development, implementation, application and improvement of computer systems for business applications.

During three conference days more than 80 delegates, mostly from the USA, Poland, Germany, Canada, Australia but also from other countries including Greece, Finland, Slovak Republic, Ukraine and Kuwait, deliberated on topics of e-government, e-learning, utilization of ontologies, mobile technologies and others. BIS 2005 was addressed to scientists, industry experts, government institutions, international organizations, specialists in theoretical and applied informatics, managers, consultants, and students and representatives of these groups were participating in the conference.

The papers presented during the BIS 2005 conference were reviewed by the international programme committee which consists of top researchers coming from 31 countries. The acceptance rate of the papers was about 40%.

The conference started from an inauguration keynote speaker lecture “The Harmonised Messaging Technology connects Web Services” held by Prof. Maria Orlowska from The University of Queensland, Australia.
During the conference, participants had possibility to hear other interesting keynote speaches held by: Volker Gruhn from University of Leipzig, Germany on Utilization of Mobile Technologies, Edward Szczerbicki from University of Newcastle, Australia, on Information Management, Gregory E. Kersten from Concordia University, Canada, on E-Negotiation Systems and Wolfgang Nebel from Oldenburg University, Germany on Objectives and Strategies for Small and Medium Size Research Institutes.

Interesting discussions took place during two panel sessions held on topics of e-government (moderator: Gertraud Peinel from FIT, Germany) and the future of ontologies (moderator: Maria E. Orlowska, University of Queensland, Australia).

The conference was supported by partners of three european projects (ASG, enIRaF and USE-ME.GOV). Thanks to the cooperation with the ASG Project, participants could get acquainted with the idea of BPM Environments (tutorial held by representatives of Rodan S.A., Poland) and also Web Services-based Information Systems. The ASG project co-organised a session that involved participants from the ASG PhD Programme and resulted with fruitfull discussions.

An internal project meeting of the ASG (Adapitve Services Grid) project was held during the conference. There were about 20 participants of the two-days’ meeting, and they represented different components of the ASG platform. From component C-1 (ASG Interface), through C-2 (Service Discovery & Composition), C-4 (Adaptive Process Management) to C-7 (Usability and demonstration). The main topics of the meeting included discussions and agreement making on current phases of research, along with making decision on future actions. Meeting partners also prepared a presentation oncurrently used technologies for BIS conference participants.

Two days before the BIS conference the Poznan University of Economics hosted also the USE-ME.GOV project meeting, during which partners from Portugal, Spain, Germany, France, Italy and Poland discussed important technological choices for the implementation, as well as for validation and exploitation phase of the project.

The conference and all the side events were organized by the Department of Management Information Systems of The Poznan University of Economics. It was supported by the Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation (CTTI), Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) and Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). Assistance was also contributed from sponsors like Microsoft, Emax, Zeto Poznan, the International Poznan Fair, and media patrons (Bankier.pl, Gazeta IT, Magazyn Systemy IT).


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